Description: Agnes Grey, Paperback by Bronte, Anne; Goreau, Angeline, ISBN 0140432108, ISBN-13 9780140432107, Brand New, Free shipping in the US ‘The name of governess, I soon found, was a mere mockery … my pupils had no more notion of obedience than a wild, unbroken colt’
When her family becomes impoverished after a disastrous financial speculation, Agnes Grey determines to find work as a governess in order to contribute to their meagre income and assert her independence. But Agnes’s enthusiasm is swiftly extinguished as she struggles first with the unmanageable Bloomfield children and then with the painful disdain of the haughty Murray family; the only kindness she receives comes from Mr Weston, the sober young curate. Drawing on her own experience, Anne Brontë’s first novel offers a compelling personal perspective on the desperate position of unmarried, educated women for whom becoming a governess was the only respectable career open in Victorian society.
This edition also includes Charlotte Brontë’s memoir of her sisters, theBiographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell. Angeline Goreau examines Anne Brontë’s complex relationship with her sisters and her unhappy career as a governess as influences in writing Agnes Grey.
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Book Title: Agnes Grey
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1989
Topic: Literary
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 7.5 Oz
Item Length: 7.8 in
Author: Anne Bronte
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Uk-B Format Paperback
